Greece

Greek tennis champion Stefanos Tsitsipas visited the presidential mansion as the guest of President of the Republic Prokopis Pavlopoulos on Wednesday and expressed his wish to represent Greece in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. The 20-year-old tennis sensation was accompanied by...

Water transfer from Turkey to the Turkish occupied area of Cyprus constitutes a flagrant violation of international law and continuation of unlawful conduct against the independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Republic, stated the Acting President of the...

The new Greek government of Alexis Tsipras was sworn-in by the President of the Hellenic Republic; Prokopis Pavlopoulos at the Presidential Mansion at 10:30 am, on Wednesday. Pavlopoulos arrived at the Presidential Mansion at 9:30 am, with reporters and television...

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is expected to meet President of the Hellenic Republic Karolos Papoulias at the Presidential Mansion on Wednesday at noon, the Athens-Macedonian news agency reported on Tuesday. On Tuesday, the Greek premier briefed Mr. Papoulias, The River...

Former EU Commissioner and former minister Stavros Dimas will be candidate for President of Hellenic Republic in all three votes, Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras announced on Tuesday. Stavros Dimas was born in 1941 in Corinth, Greece. He studied law...

The decision by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Wednesday to propose a female candidate for the President of the Hellenic Republic sent shock waves through the male-dominated Greek political system -- and society itself. Mitsotakis proposed Ekaterini Sakellaropoulou, first female...

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis announced in a televised message on Wednesday evening that his ruling New Democracy party will propose Ekaterini Sakellaropoulou as a candidate for the position of President of the Republic. PM Mitsotakis announced the candidate following...

The President of the Hellenic Republic received today the president of PASOK and head of the Democratic Alignment Fofi Gennimata. The aim of the meeting, made upon the request of Fofi Gennimata, was to discuss the migration crisis and its...

The Greek government has called the Greek ambassador to the Czech Republic back to Greece for deliberations, following remarks by the country's president on Greece's presence in the Eurozone, Greek media report. The dispute began when Czech Republic President Milos Zeman...

President of the Hellenic Republic Prokopis Pavlopoulos said that there is no surplus of public sector employees in Greece and that there are shortages in some areas. The Greek president and Deputy Minister of Administrative Reform Christoforos Vernardakis had a...

The President of the Hellenic Republic, Prokopis Pavlopoulos, will inaugurate the 80th Thessaloniki International Fair (TIF) on September 4. The TIF, which will run from September 5 until September 13, includes commercial exhibitions from a number of different themes and sectors, including innovation,...

President of the Hellenic Republic Prokopis Pavlopoulos has reiterated Athens' support for a solution of the Cyprus problem, noting that despite the difficulties the country is faced with, it is always strong enough to support Cyprus. Pavlopoulos, who received Cypriot...

Newly elected President of the Hellenic Republic Prokopis Pavlopoulos was sworn in earlier today at a ceremony in the country’s Parliament, amid heavy rain. The new Greek President took the traditional oath administered by Archbishop Ieronymos. Pavlopoulos, who is Greece...

The new President of the Hellenic Republic, Prokopis Pavlopoulos, was elected today, February 18, by the Greek Parliament. Pavlopoulos was born in 1950 in Kalamata, Greece, where he finished his school studies. In 1968, he moved to the Greek...

Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades said that Ankara's positions for a resumption of the talks not only do not satisfy Cyprus but create more problems. After a cabinet meeting, the first he chaired following his return to Cyprus from New York where he...